2022 in Australian literature

• Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
• Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
• Geraldine Brooks – Horse
• Jane Caro – The Mother^[1]
• Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
• Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
• Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot^[2]
• Gail Jones – Salonika Burning
• Yumna Kassab – The Lovers^[3]
• Robert Lukins – Loveland^[4]
• Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down^[5]
• Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris^[6]
• Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses^[7]
• Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother^[8]
• Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel^[9]
• Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing^[10]

• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know
• Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun^[11]

• Shelley Burr – Wake^[12]
• Aoife Clifford – When We Fall^[13]
• Chris Hammer – The Tilt^[14]
• Jane Harper – Exiles
• Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate^[15]
• Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters^[16]
• Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid^[17]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule^[18]
• Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You^[19]
• Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish^[20]
• Sean Wilson – Gemini Falls
• Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over^[21]

• Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools^[22]
• Grace Chan – Every Version of You^[23]
• Greg Egan
  • "After Zero"
  • "Crisis Actors"
  • "Dream Factory"
• Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis^[24]
• Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams^[25]
• Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns^[26]

• Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love^[27]
• Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge^[28]
• Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon^[29]

• Adam Aitken – Revenants^[30]
• Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems^[31]
• Marion May Campbell – Languish^[32]
• Brook Emery – Sea Scale: New & Selected Poems.
• Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo^[33]
• Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia^[34]
• Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar^[35]
• John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)^[36]
• Les Murray – Continuous Creation^[37]
• Rae White – Exactly As I Am^[38]

• Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family^[39]
• Debra Dank – We Come With This Place^[40]
• Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics^[41]
• Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood^[42]
• Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong^[43]
• Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation^[44]

• Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation^[45]
• Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On^[46]
• Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story^[47]
• Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen^[48]
• Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls^[49]
• Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career^[50]
• Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here^[51]

Summarize Top Qs Fact Check

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Award	Author
Mona Brand Award[52]	Andrea James
Patrick White Award[53]	Antigone Kefala

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[54]	Andy Jackson	Human Looking	Giramondo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[55]	Emily Bitto	Wild Abandon	Allen & Unwin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56]	Trent Dalton	Love Stories	Fourth Estate
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[57]	Safdar Ahmed	Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System	Twelve Panels Press
Stella Prize[58]	Evelyn Araluen	Dropbear	University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]	Veronica Gorrie	Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience	Scribe

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61]	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin
The Age Book of the Year[62]	Miles Allinson	In Moonland	Scribe
ARA Historical Novel Prize[63]	Tom Keneally	Corporal Hitler's Pistol	Vintage
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[64]	Nell Pierce	A Place Near Eden	Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[65]	S. L. Lim	Revenge	Transit Lounge Publishing
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[56]	Charlotte McConaghy	Once There Were Wolves	Hamish Hamilton
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[56]	Lyn Yeowart	The Silent Listener	Viking
Miles Franklin Award[66]	Jennifer Down	Bodies of Light	Text
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67]	Nicolas Rothwell	Red Heaven	Text
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68]	Tony Birch	Dark as Last Night	UQP
Queensland Literary Awards[69]	Michael Mohammed Ahmad	The Other Half of You	Hachette Australia
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]	Melisa Manning	Smokehouse	UQP
Voss Literary Prize[70]	Larissa Behrendt	After Story	University of Queensland Press

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize[63]	Children and Young Adult	Katrina Nannestad	Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief	HarperCollins
Children's Book of the Year Award[71]	Older Readers	Rebecca Lim	Tiger Daughter	Allen & Unwin
	Younger Readers	Shirley Marr	A Glasshouse of Stars	Puffin
	Picture Book	Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft	Iceberg	Allen & Unwin
	Early Childhood	Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville	Jetty Jumping	Hardie Grant
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Safdar Ahmed	Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System	Twelve Panels Press
	Lifetime Achievement	Margaret Wild[72]
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56]	Children's	Katrina Nannestad	Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief	ABC Books
	Young Adult	Danielle Binks	The Monster of Her Age	Lothian
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68]	Children's	Peter Carnavas	My Brother Ben	UQP
	Young People's	Leanne Hall	The Gaps	Text
Queensland Literary Awards[69]	Children's	Kunyi June Anne McInerney	Kunyi	Magabala Books
	Young Adult	Felicity Castagna	Girls in Boys' Cars	Pan
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]	Young Adult Fiction	Felicity Castagna	Girls in Boys' Cars	Pan

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Barry Award[73]	Paperback Original	Dervla McTiernan	The Good Turn	HarperCollins

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[74]	Novel	Charlotte McConaghy	Once There Were Wolves	Hamish Hamilton
	Young adult novel	Leanne Hall	The Gaps	Text Publishing
	Children's novel	Nicki Greenberg	The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel	Affirm Press
	Non-fiction	Kate Holden	The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek	Black Inc
	Debut novel	Jacqueline Bublitz	Before You Knew My Name	Allen & Unwin
	Readers' choice	Jacqueline Bublitz	Before You Knew My Name	Allen & Unwin
Ned Kelly Award[75]	Novel	Candice Fox	The Chase	Bantam Books
	First novel	Josh Kemp	Banjawarn	UWA Publishing
	True crime	Debi Marshall	Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders	Vintage Books

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61]	Jodie Albiston	Fifteeners	Puncher & Wattmann
Anne Elder Award[76]	Audrey Molloy	The Important Things	Gallery Press
Mary Gilmore Award[77]	Jelena Dinic	In the Room with the She Wolf	Wakefield Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67]	Andy Jackson	Human Looking	Giramondo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68]	Dan Disney	accelerations & inertias	Vagabond Press
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[78]	Pam Brown	Stasis Shuffle	Hunter
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]	Maria Takolander	Trigger Warning	University of Queensland Press

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68]	Script	Shaun Grant	NITRAM
	Play	Kirsty Marillier	Orange Thrower	Currency Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]		Dylan Van Den Berg	Milk
Patrick White Playwrights' Award[79]	Award	Aran Thangaratnam	love MAD GLITCH	Sydney Theatre Company
	Fellowship	Joanna Murray-Smith

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61]	Non-Fiction	Helen Ennis	Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography	Fourth Estate
The Age Book of the Year[62]	Non-Fiction	Bennadette Brennan	Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears	Allen & Unwin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56]	Non-Fiction	Trent Dalton	Love Stories	Fourth Estate
	Illustrated Non-Fiction	Amber Creswell Bell	Still Life	Thames and Hudson
National Biography Award[80][81]	Biography	Bernadette Brennan	Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68]	Non-Fiction	Kate Holden	The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek	Black Inc.
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[82]	Australian History	Alexis Bergantz	French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions	NewSouth Publishing
	Community and Regional History	Kate Holden	The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek	Black Inc.
	General History	Mina Roces	The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change	Cornell University Press
Queensland Literary Awards[69]	Non-Fiction	Claire G. Coleman	Lies, Damned Lies	Ultimo Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60]	Non-Fiction	Amani Haydar	The Mother Wound	Pan